{"id":172920,"date":"2022-03-08T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=172920"},"modified":"2022-03-08T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:16:13","slug":"disruptiongov-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/disruptiongov-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruption@gov.in\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News<\/span><\/b>: <\/span>State government of Bengal has ordered an internet shutdown in a few districts for a week in order to curb cheating in the ongoing State board exams.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How frequent are the internet shutdown in India?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

According to Access Now, a non-profit which advocates for digital civil rights, from about 155 global shutdowns it documented in the year 2020 109 were from India.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are its negative impacts?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

Internet is<\/span> a commercial and social lifeline<\/span><\/b>.<\/span> The telecom industry estimated it loses Rs 2.4 crore an hour in every circle area where there\u2019s a shutdown. <\/span><\/p>\n

Apart from this, the losses incurred by other businesses that increasingly rely on the internet go unnoticed. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the legislation that governs internet shutdowns in India?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The umbrella legislation governing this area is <\/span>Indian Telegraph Act<\/span><\/b>. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, problem arises due to a <\/span>new set of rules<\/span><\/b> introduced by GoI in August 2017 to provide statutory cover for temporary suspension of telecom services. These rules identify <\/span>public emergency and public safety<\/span><\/b> as ground for imposing internet shutdowns. <\/span><\/p>\n

As these terms don\u2019t have any particular description they are many a times <\/span>interpreted subjectively<\/span><\/b> by the executive<\/span> and may also lead to their misuse.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What have been the Supreme court\u2019s observation in the case of internet shutdowns?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The shutdowns imposed by states are inconsistent with a relevant Supreme Court verdict. <\/span><\/p>\n

In January 2020, the apex court said that the freedom to carry on trade over the internet enjoys constitutional protection under <\/span>Article 19.<\/span><\/b> Therefore, any restriction has to meet the <\/span>test of proportionality.\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/b> This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span>Disruption@gov.in<\/span><\/b>\u201d published in <\/span>The Times of India<\/span><\/b> on 8<\/strong><\/span>th<\/strong> Mar 22<\/strong>. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: State government of Bengal has ordered an internet shutdown in a few districts for a week in order to curb cheating in the ongoing State board exams.\u00a0 How frequent are the internet shutdown in India?\u00a0 According to Access Now, a non-profit which advocates for digital civil rights, from about 155 global shutdowns it documented… Continue reading Disruption@gov.in\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-172920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704706182},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}